{"id":416345,"date":"2022-03-15T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:30:22","slug":"watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Facing Nolan&#8217; Review: Nolan Ryan Doc Hits the Sweet Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be7419ab54\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be7419ab54\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Facing_Nolan_Review_Nolan_Ryan_Doc_Hits_the_Sweet_Spot%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Facing Nolan&#8217; Review: Nolan Ryan Doc Hits the Sweet Spot&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Facing_Nolan_Review_Nolan_Ryan_Doc_Hits_the_Sweet_Spot%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Facing Nolan&#8217; Review: Nolan Ryan Doc Hits the Sweet Spot&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-facing-nolan-review-nolan-ryan-doc-hits-the-sweet-spot\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Facing_Nolan_Review_Nolan_Ryan_Doc_Hits_the_Sweet_Spot%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Facing Nolan&#8217; Review: Nolan Ryan Doc Hits the Sweet Spot&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Facing_Nolan_Review_Nolan_Ryan_Doc_Hits_the_Sweet_Spot%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Facing Nolan&#8217; Review: Nolan Ryan Doc Hits the Sweet Spot&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Bradley Jackson\u2019s \u201cFacing Ryan\u201d tells the story of an agreeable fellow from small-town Texas who married his high school sweetheart, followed his dream of playing major league baseball, pitched for four MLB teams over a 27-year career while operating a cattle ranch during off-season, set records for no-hitters and strikeouts that remain unbroken to this day, held high-profile executive positions with two of his former teams more than a decade after his retirement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, and currently resides on the ranch where he and his wife, the loving and supportive life partner he wed back in 1967, are frequently surrounded by their children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to present this scenario at a pitch meeting, you\u2019d likely be shot down for failing to hype your narrative with suspenseful setbacks, intense conflict and a slew of obstacles for your protagonist to overcome. And if you somehow managed to get your film made anyway, critics would almost surely complain about the many and varied ways credibility was stretched to the breaking point while the hero accomplished one extraordinary feat after another.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: \u201cFacing Nolan\u201d is a documentary, not a work of fiction. And its lack of manufactured drama is one of the most engaging things about it, especially if you are a baseball fan who has ever marveled at the miracle that was, and is, Nolan Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, even viewers without a love for the game could be engrossed and entertained by Jackson\u2019s celebratory film. To be sure, a few some may complain, not without just cause, that sections play more like hagiography than biography, and question whether its subject could really be such an irreproachable Mr. Nice Guy. On the other hand, you wouldn\u2019t expect to have skeletons uncloseted or dark secrets illuminated in what is essentially the cinematic equivalent of an authorized biography. (Nolan and his sons Reid and Reese Ryan are credited as executive producers.) But Jackson argues that beneath the seemingly easygoing and gregarious surface beats the heart of a fierce competitor.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran sportswriter \u2014 one of the many on-camera interviewees who share screen time with Ryan himself \u2014 recalls the legendary pitcher casually admitting, \u201cOnce I cross that white line, I don\u2019t even like myself.\u201d Another observer describes Ryan as \u201cthe most intimidating pitcher in the history of the game,\u201d a de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion echoed in assorted ways by Pete Rose, Rod Carew, Cal Ripken Jr. and other players who batted against him.<\/p>\n<p>Conspicuously absent from the latter group: Robin Ventura, the Chicago White Sox third baseman who made the tactical error of charging the mound after Ryan stuck him with a pitch during an Aug. 4, 1993 game. Although he was 20 years Ventura\u2019s senior, Ryan calmly neutralized the threat by trapping his would-be attacker in the sort of headlock he used on errant calves back at his ranch, then proceeded to punch him several times, thereby igniting a benches-clearing brawl. Footage of the incident (included here, of course) went viral way before viral was a thing, and Ryan \u2014 who was <em>not<\/em> ejected from the game for what umpires judged to be defensive moves \u2014 was widely hailed as a hero. And Ventura? A title card says it all: \u201cRobin Ventura declined to be interviewed for this film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then, \u201cFacing Nolan\u201d offers by way of balance a revisionist take on certain elements of the \u201cRyan Express\u201d mythos, noting that the oft-told story about Ryan developing his 100-mph fast ball at an early age while he was a paperboy delivering The Houston Post to folks around his childhood home in Alvin, Texas, is, well, bunk. (Ryan, a right-handed pitcher, explains that when driving, he had to toss the papers with his <em>left<\/em> hand.) And he most certainly was not an overnight sensation: During his minor league days, says another interviewee, \u201cHis control was like \u2018Nuke\u2019 LaLoosh in \u2018Bull Durham.\u2019\u201d Ryan admits he was so frustrated by his lack of command during his salad days with the New York Mets that he considered quitting baseball in 1971 \u2014 only to be talked out of making that life-changing decision by his wife, Ruth, who impresses here as an invaluably level-headed and straight-talking woman who obviously deserves all the credit her husband gives her.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Mike MacRae pushes his folksy tone rather insistently throughout \u201cFacing Nolan\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s probably not a good idea to engage in a drinking game that requires taking a shot each time he refers to \u201cOl\u2019 Nollie\u201d \u2014 but it\u2019s a near-perfect fit for a tall tale that just happens to be true. Ryan acknowledges disappointments (despite his prodigious accomplishments, he never was voted a Cy Young Award), and vividly recalls the time notoriously tight-fisted Houston Astros owner John McMullen made what Ryan viewed as an insultingly low-ball offer to re-sign with the team. Yet he also admits that living well, and pitching phenomenally, can be the best revenge.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Astros, Ryan signed as a free agent at age 42 with the Texas Rangers in 1989 (right around the time George W. Bush, another admiring interviewee, was part-owner and CEO), went on to pitch the sixth and seventh no-hitters of his career, and retired only after raising his strikeout number to 5,714. Just how amazing is that number? \u201cI\u2019m second to him in strikeouts,\u201d says another legend, Randy Johnson, \u201cand he\u2019s got a thousand more strikeouts than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Nolan Ryan had never existed, \u201cFacing Nolan\u201d strongly suggests, no screenwriter would ever get away with making him up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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